Two Breezy Point parents have been busted and charged with endangering the welfare of a minor and unlawfully dealing with children in the wake of a “booze-filled party” that was uncovered by two patrol officers from the 100 Precinct More...

The Scholars’ Academy on Beach 102 Street in Rockaway Park has become the destination of choice for parents throughout District 27 whose children are reading and doing math on a high level. The school was founded a few years ago as the di More...

A grease fire broke out in the kitchen of a sixth floor apartment in Hammel Houses last Friday evening, leaving a family that included an 8-year-old boy and 19-month baby boy trapped inside when the apartment doorknob jammed, More...

There are many in Rockaway who believe, no matter the outcome of the meeting that was held yesterday, May 10, that the Department of Health scheduled the meeing in such a way that it would discourage attendance. It is hard to disagree. More...

Next week will mark a year since the premiere of “The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman” which we at the Grassroots Education Movement (GEM) produced as a response to the anti-union, anti-public school, procharter More...

How do you feel? I hope ‘good.’ If you have been doing the little things that I have been writing about, you feel good for sure!! If you feel good the people around you feel it too, you’re making them feel good. More...

Tianna Parkes was with her Beach Channel/Channel View lacrosse teammates at a camp in Boston last summer conducted by Northwestern women’s coach Kelly Amonte-Hiller. Parkes, the Dolphins starting goalie, was told by Hiller to adopt a nick More...

The Rockaway Beach Volleyball League successfully held their sole pre-season meeting in April and that’s when the hard work began for the RBVL committee. Rosters, league fees and uniform orders were collected and 74 teams got ready to wag More...

Mary F. Costello, a longtime Rockaway resident, died May 8. Costello was born in Springfield Gardens, New York. She moved to Rockaway 53 years ago from Brooklyn, New York. She belonged to the St. More...

The National Park Service took another step closer to making Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn the centerpiece of its renovated Gateway National Recreation Area last weekend with a two-day ceremony for More...

It has been 93 years since Rockaway saw three Navy flying boats leave Jamaica Bay for their historic trans- Atlantic flight. The following is an excerpt from my unpublished manuscript on the NC-4’s journey More...

Assemblyman Phillip Goldfeder met with officials from LIPA and National Grid and toured the Bayswater Power Station in Far Rockaway with the plant manager and members of the Bayswater Civic and local More...

Even as The Wave was put to bed and the state’s Health Commissioner spoke to a large group of local residents at the Knights of Columbus on Thursday afternoon, word came to the paper that the liquidation of the hospital property would begin shortly a More...

The Kings County Fair, Brooklyn’s most popular family event, returns to Aviator Sports & Events Center, located at Floyd Bennett Field on Flatbush Ave, just one mile south of the Belt Parkway Exit 11S. More...

PS/MS 47 hosted a visit from Miss New York, Kaitlin Monte, on Tuesday, May 1. Monte spoke at two assemblies about the requirements and benefits of becoming Miss New York and the struggles with bullying in her life. More...

Sometime this summer, the National Park Service will issue its ten-year management plan for Gateway National Recreation Area, what we all euphemistically know as “Gateway.” There will be public hearings on the plan and locals will have a More...

Dear Editor, I would like to bring to your attention what some may consider a minor matter, but what seems to me an unnecessary cruelty, even if it’s on a small scale. I am a Bridge and Tunnel Officer employed on the Rockaway bridge More...

Dear Editor, The parking lot in downtown Far Rockaway at the Mott Avenue train station has seen a lot of towing by B&M towing. It seems that this parking lot, which has the Capital One bank, the Thriftway drugstore More...

Dear Editor, I was at the May Day march in NYC yesterday and was moved and inspired. There were all kinds of people, of all races and ages. I was with the groups for 4 hours from 3:30 until 7:30 when I couldn’t get past Canal Street. More...